How good is this place? The Toronto SUN came to shoot it's latest
swimsuit calendar at the very same hotel. We obviously needed better
coordination between our itineraries....The Toronto Sun photo crew and its swimsuited SUNShine Girls.

Many hours spent around that very pool playing volleyball in the pool and spectating
viscious matches of water polo. *g* It was as beautiful as it looks. Even when
the SUNshine girls aren't in the picture....

Cozumel, Mexico - Iwana Iguana

The island of Cozumel and it's one town, San Miguel,
thrives on the tourism business and the cruise liners bring to it three times a
week. Major expansion projects are still ongoing in the town as
well as along the islands one main road, adding to the dust. The
hotel area was beautiful, as were our visits off the island to the
mainland, south of Cancun to Tulum and Xel-ha. The pictures below are mostly from
these later two areas.

From the same vantage point as in the last picture, the water was so
clear that we could turn slightly right, look way down, and see down
to the fish in the ocean. The picture was taken with a 300mm zoom from
on toop of the cliff.

About 20 minutes back up the road after we left Tulum, we turned
into Xel-ha, where we had a nice Mexican lunch and were entertained
by a three-piece orchastra (all on the same piece....) Xel-ha is a snorkelers
Meca, as you can see when you visit the "Aquarium"